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The Big 10 will have fans in stands for the conference basketball tournament. The B1G announced Thursday that up to 8,000 fans will be in the stands when conference teams start battling it out March 10 for a title at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) During the regular season, attendance has been banned because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic . A limited number of 2021 #B1GMBBall Tournament tickets will go on sale through each school’s ticket office. MORE INFO: https://t.co/wluAGPGNcD pic.twitter.com/5zPXzCltRf — Big Ten Men’s Hoops (@B1GMBBall) March 4, 2021 I love this move from the B1G, and I’m not just saying that because I’m a Big 10 guy. I’m saying it because it’s true. We need to put fans back in the stands if it’s possible, and we’ve clearly gotten to a point to where it’s possible to do safely. View this post on … [Read more...] about The Big 10 Will Allow 8,000 Fans At Conference Tournament Games

Some fans will be allowed at March Madness games. The NCAA announced Friday that capacity might be as high as 25% for the games starting next month. The entire tournament will take place in Indiana during the coronavirus pandemic. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) ???? ATTENDANCE UPDATE! ???? NCAA to allow limited fan attendance at DI MBB NCAA Tournament! #MarchMadness https://t.co/YFlndZLyxY pic.twitter.com/M3QzsYXvcn — NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) February 19, 2021 This is absolutely awesome, and I wish you could all see the smile on my face right now. Last year, March Madness was stolen from us. The pandemic unleashed itself in March, the conference tournaments were canceled and March Madness followed. Congratulations To The 2020 College Basketball National Champions – The Wisconsin Badgers https://t.co/SCNbBMDbtQ — David Hookstead (@dhookstead) March 12, 2020 … [Read more...] about Fans Will Be Allowed At March Madness Games

Google booted 200 publishers from its advertising network partly due to the outcry of fake news spreading throughout the Internet. Google announced Wednesday that it reviewed 550 sites in roughly two months, and took action against 340 of them for violating policies. Two-hundred publishers were kicked out of its network permanently. It is common practice for Google to continuously filter out marketers that make fraudulent or misleading claims — like “weight-loss scams,” “imitation designer watches” —  but certain sites that potentially publish dishonest information are now on the chopping block. “In 2016, we saw the rise of tabloid cloakers , a new type of scammer that tries to game our system by pretending to be news,” Scott Spencer, the director of product management at Sustainable Ads, wrote in an official blog post (emphasis theirs). “Cloakers often take advantage of timely topics—a government election, a trending news story or a popular celebrity—and their ads can look … [Read more...] about Google Bans 200 Publishers Partly Due To ‘Fake News’ Policy

The National Basketball League has yet to comment after a Chinese court ruled that homosexuality is a “psychological disorder.” Recently a court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu ruled that being gay is a disorder and cited Chinese academic research to justify the position. This ruling by the Jiangsu court’s rule upholds a lower court’s ruling, the New York Post reported. LGBTQ activists in China have slammed the rulings calling them “random and baseless.” “The editor of the textbook apparently used viewpoints that do not match society’s perception of sexual minorities today,” said Ah Qiang, a spokesperson for PFLAG in China. The ruling seems to run contrary to the 1997 decriminalization of homosexuality in China, not to mention the 2001 removal of homosexuality from China’s official lists of mental disorders. Still, the NBA remains silent on the ruling made by their multibillion-dollar partners in the Chinese government, despite their claims to be staunch … [Read more...] about NBA Yet to Respond After Chinese Court Rules Homosexuality a Mental Disorder

ESPN college basketball analyst and radio host Dan Dakich is being investigated after a professor at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania said she felt “violated” after Dakich used the word “bitching” during a Twitter squabble. In February, a lecturing fellow from Duke University named Nathan Kalman-Lamb blasted Dakich and other members of the sports media after they criticized freshman basketball player Jalen Johnson for opting out of the final six games of the season. Dakich and others implied that Johnson had quit on his team. That criticism resulted in a Twitter spat involving Dakich, Kalman-Lamb, and assistant professor Johanna Mellis. After Dakich challenged the sports/athletic credentials of Mellis and Kalman-Lamb, Mellis, a former D1 swimmer, challenged the ESPN personality to a swimming race. “Dakich later used the word ‘bitching’ in reference to Mellis and tweeted that he would have to divorce his wife first before accepting her challenge,” the New York Post reports … [Read more...] about College Professor Claims ESPN Analyst Verbally ‘Violated’ Her